Bangkok (Thailand) hosts the Subregional dialogue on biodiversity monitoring and reporting with a focus on ecosystem restoration on 2-5 September 2025.
“The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC), as the Regional Technical and Scientific Cooperation Support Centre to boost countries’ capacity for monitoring and reporting on Target 2 of the CBD’s Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, participated in the event to strengthen its capacity in the topic and build cooperation with 9 other centers. Target 2 commits countries to ensuring that by 2030, at least 30% of degraded terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine ecosystems are effectively restored,” says Lyudmila Kiktenko, the CAREC Environmental Management Programme’s Manager.
The event brought together senior government officials, biodiversity focal points, technical experts, Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, women and youth representatives, civil society actors, academia and development partners from across Asia and Oceania.
According to Lyudmila Kiktenko, it is one in a global series of dialogues organized in the run-up to the submission of countries’ Seventh National Reports under the CBD, which are due by February 2026.
The dialogue was jointly convened by FAO, the CBD Secretariat and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, with financial support from the United Kingdom through the AIM4NatuRe (Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Nature Restoration) initiative and from the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative. Following Bangkok, regional workshops will be held in Latin America and Africa, culminating in a global stock take of ecosystem restoration progress at the 17th meeting to the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the CBD in 2026. Organization of dialogue in Central Asia under discussion.
More on this topic
- FAO Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring: www.fao.org/ecosystem-restoration-monitoring/en
- Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM): ferm.fao.org
Additional information:
Lyudmila Kiktenko – the CAREC Environmental Management Programme’s Manager, lkiktenko@carececo.org